Mexico City – The Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, described Monday as “unfair” the decision of the Trump administration to suspend imports of Mexican meat cattle for 15 days due to the detection of screw worms in shipments.
Sheinbaum, who has spent the last months fighting to compensate for the tariff threats of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, said he expected the suspension not to result in another economic blow to his country.
“We do not agree with this measure,” he said at his morning press conference on Monday. “The Mexican government has been working on all fronts from the first moment we were alerted to the screw worm.”
The United States restricted Mexican cattle shipments at the end of November after plague detection, but raised the ban in February after protocols were implemented to evaluate animals before entering the country. But there has been an “unacceptable advance to the north” of the screw worm, said the United States Department of Agriculture in a statement on Sunday.
“The last time this devastating plague invaded the US.
The screw worm is a hominivorax hominivorax flyfast larva that can invade the tissues of any hot blood animal, including humans. The parasite enters the skin, causing serious and potentially fatal damage and injuries.
The Ministry of Health of Mexico issued an epidemiological warning this month after the first human case of screw worm miiasis, or parasitic infestation, was confirmed on April 17 in a 77 -year -old woman who lives in the state of southern Chiapas.
